Stripping blade



y 1941- s. PICKENS EI'AL 2,250,651

STRIPPING BLADE Filed June 20, 1940 [n ventors Scorr P/cKE N5 if. LEO/v Hui/ER,

A tfbrney By w-M Patented July 29, 1941 STRIIPING BLADE Scott Pickens, Portland, and Richard Leon Fauvcr, Klamath Falls, reg., assignors of onefourth to James Luis Application June 20, 1940, Serial No. 541,544.

4 Claims.

This invention relates to what may be termed a stripping blade; the object of the invention being the provision of a blade which may be readily mounted on a driven rotating circular blade of a conventional slicing machine and which is so constructed and applied to such blade as to cooperate therewith for cutting the slice made by the blade of the slicing machine into a plurality of elongated strips to the end that meat or vegetables being sliced may at the same time be cut into long, narrow strips as is sometimes desired.

At the present time the practice is generally to, by the use of the slicing machine, cut the desired slice from the bulk, and then in turn out that slice into elongated strips, thus requiring practically two separate and distinct operations. In accordance with the present invention the slicing and the stripping is accomplished substantially simultaneously one with the other, thus facilitating such slicing and stripping.

The invention together with its objects and advantages will be best understood from a study of the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view illustrating the application of the invention to a conventional slicing machine.

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1 and illustrating the manner in which the invention coacts with the circular blade of the slicing machine for obtaining the desired results.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the stripping blade as applied to the circular blade of the slicing machine.

Referring more in detail to the drawing it will be seen that in accordance with the present invention the circular driven slicing blade 5 of the conventional slicing machine indicated generally by the reference numeral 6 may have applied laterally thereto any desired number of stripping blades 1 embodying the salient feature of this invention.

In accordance with this invention, and in the preferred embodiment thereof, the stripping blade indicated generally by the reference numeral 1, as above stated, is preferably formed from a single blank of metal such as steel or other suitable material, cut, shaped and dimensioned to provide a substantially rectangular shank 8 having integral with one end thereof a blade 9 that extends from the shank 8 substantially at right angles to the shank 8, the cutting edge ID of the blade being either straight as shown, or curved as may be found desirable.

In actual practice the shank 8 is bolted or secured by other suitable fastening elements as indicated generally by the reference numeral II to the blade 5 of the slicing machine so that the blade 9 extends laterally from the circular blade 5 inwardly from the cutting edge l2 of the blade 5.

Any desired number of blades 1 may be applied to the blade 5-, in the present instance four of such blades 1 being shown applied to the blade 5, and the blades 1 are arranged in a circular series on the circular blade 5 at the back side, that is to say the side from which the slice emerges, of the disk blade 5.

It will thus be seen that as the blade 5 rotates for cutting a slice l2 from the bulk material l3, be it meat, a potato, or other article, the slice I2 is in turn, through the medium of the blade or blades 9, slit into strips l4. Thus substantially in a single operation is a slice cut from the bulk l3 and the slice in turn out into a plurality of strips.

It will also be apparent that the blade of the invention may be readily attached to the circular blade of the slicing machine without materially altering the structure of said circular blade or the slicing machine itself.

It is thought that a clear understanding of the utility, manner of use, and advantages of a stripping blade used as an attachment for a slicing machine will be had by those skilled in the artv without further description thereof.

It is also to be understood that while I have herein shown and described the preferred embodiment of the invention, it is in no wise intended to limit the invention to the precise details shown, and that variations in the manner of attachment and detachability of, the stripping blade as well as variations of the relative position of the stripping blade in relation to the cutting edge of the circular slicing blade may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention as herein claimed.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

1, In a slicing machine, the combination of a rotary circular slicing blade having a bevelled edge on one face thereof, a shank connected with said face of the blade and having a bent cutting end extending laterally from the inner edge of the bevel and arranged at substantially right angles to the bevel for cutting the slice cut by the circular blade into strips.

2. In a slicing machine, the combination with a rotary circular slicing blade having a beveled peripheral cutting edge, and feed means for feeding material to said circular blade, said feed. means being movable parallel to the plane of said blade, of means connected with one side of said blade and having a cutting end extending from the side of said blade opposite said feed means laterally from said side closely adjacent said edge and radially inwardly of said edge, the cutting end being substantially parallel to the cutting edge of the circular slicing blade.

3. In a slicing machine, the combination with a rotary slicing blade having a beveled peripheral cutting edge, and feed means for feeding material to said circular blade, said feed means being movable parallel to the plane of said blade, of means connected with one side of the blade opposite the feeding means and having a bent cutting end extending laterally at a relatively large angle from said side of the blade closely adjacent to said edge and radially inwardly therefrom, said end having a leading cutting edge oblique to said side of the blade to effect a draw cut under rotation of said end with said blade to effect stripping of material sliced by said circular blade.

4. In a slicing machine, the combination with a rotary circular slicing blade having a beveled peripheral cutting edge, and feeding means for feeding material to said circular blade, said feeding means being movable parallel to the plane of said blade, of a plurality of stripping blades on said slicing blade spaced circumferentially around the same and each including a shank fixed to the opposite side of said slicing blade from the feeding means, and a bent cutting end arranged at a' large angle relative to the beveled edge of the slicing blade and radially inwardly of said edge to efiect stripping of material sliced by said circular blade.

SCOTT PICKE'NS. R. LEON FAUVER. 

